Wichita eagle., 1887-01-08
FOR WESTERN KANSAS.

1 hAlGhOAOS FOR WESTERN hAN6AS.
Since the EAGLE opened out against the
assumption of the eastern part of the state
to dictate for the western half touching the
privilege of voting aid for the construction
of new railways, things have grewn warm,
and Governor Martin is hearing from the
districts fromerly known as the coyote
country. The Topeka correspondent of
the Kansas City Times sums up the situa-
tion very accurately as follows:
The kicking against the supposed intend
ed legislation against the loose way of vot-
! ing bonds to railroads has commenced in
earnest out in the western part Of Kansas
| The executive Office Of the state is deluged
with petitions, protests and remonstraHce5
against any restrictive legislation in that
direction. The kicking in virGleLce and
strength surpaSsetb that Of the rear action
OF the mule, and the bowling is strongly
suggestive Of the festive melo-
dies of the hungry coyote. The
governor is not little annoyed and sur
prlsed at the volume and force of this gen
eral uprising in the west. That section be-
| lievcs there is 4 systematic and determined
effort on the part Of the Older and more
| thickly settled portions of the state to crush
out the rising development Of the west.
| The more favored portions of the border
eastern counties have always looked upon
the western two-thirds of the state as being
illy-fitted for other inhabitants than the
coy etc, the prairie dog. the rattlesnake and
few stray Texas steers and festive COW
bows.
The older communities have assumed
that the culture, the wealth, the taxable
property, the appropriations, the state in
stituti0ns ana the offices must all be COB
hled uD, controlled and held by the heaven
favored old settler. and their proyidentally
protected immediate descendants residing
east Of the line drawn from north to south
and passing through "Empory." Law
renee colonized Emporia and most Of these
eastern towns; New England colonized
Lawrence, and what didn' come from New
England was accarsed and heathenish and
must be thrown to the dogs. Hence what
soever elnanated from Lawrence and New
England was sacred and divinely set apart
for the saints To the healhen coming
hlther from the grasshopper- deyOured, In
dian ralded and c0yOte-cursed region was
inscribed upon these eastern int2lS and
dOorsteps, ''Precul, Q, pr0cul este, pro
FAM" And they kept away, and remained
nearly a quarter Of century out upon the
prairies, bare and cold.
But III the course Of time and in the nat
ural processes of Development and growth
Wichita sprang up from the teeniing and
hri>tliDg sOll of the rich and productive
Arkansas valley; and Garden City, boast
ing of the %, 900 Inhabitants it is going 10
have in the next national census three years
hence. and hundred other smaller towns
and vigorous young cities, spawned upon
the western Kansas plains, have arisen to
protest against the greed that g0bbed ev
cry governor Kansas has Yet had, nearly
all the state 'ffictrS. the state capital with
It's s., coo, 600 ie $3,000,J0G appropriated
for public buildings, and which the west
ern part OF the state is TO be taxed to sus
tain, and support the United States sen
ators, the federal officials, ali the state III
sti;utiOnS and the ilimeuSa appropriations !
Ia keep them running until a few branches
were ordered built by the last legislature. |
Look At Alchison: the Lord only knows |
what she hasn't had If She has not l'ad !!
ne earth 1t is because her modesty pre-
vented her asking for ii. A United States
ever since the state was organ
ized, tWeuty-SiX years: the governOrship
four Tears with another pa | Of two years;
one q the three state supF m Judges ever
since the state was organized; the chief
iusjiceship most of the time; the United
States mail agency fer over twenty Years;
the United States district judge for the life
Of the present incumbent, and the clerk OF
he district court for nearly twenty years;
and yet Atchisnn is not 50 large as Wichita
By several thousand people, and five Y ears
hence will be smaller han Garden City by
several thousand population, and perhaps
aill contain III the next census less popula
ion than Wellington or Arkansas City,
vay down "n he borders of the Indian
Territory.
And now come the vigorous brain and
)rawn of the new Kansas, protesting
l5sirSt these stall fed sections who have get
heir railroads and want the stoppage Of the
urther kui!ding Of roads, and for them
elves say: I'VE have ytntured out upon
he arid plains HAT you said could only
uppuri prairie dogs aud breed cra-sho|,-
ierS. ana we have bui!ded cities end oEen
d farms. established for ourselves Aimeri-
All homeS of thrift and Industry. pros
Deritv and plenty Now We want, what
-
We don't ask on ia build our railroads:
ye don't ask The state to do it. We will
onince 90 bear, without grumbling, oar
hare Of the burden Of taxation to
upport the state Institutions located
v You in your nidst We take pride
n our stote, aud We drsire 10 see every sec
ion prosper and every interest promoted.
he state institutions though preina-
areiy and unfortunately located in many
distances. are a part of the state. and must 5
e Io>tercd and encouraged that they may
id to lis rcspieHdeut ginries But in the
cHdHct Of our own industrial affairs We
sk 10 he let alone, especially IS your non
ntertercrce will cost yen nothing. and
our interference if persisted in to the
oiut II imperjinence may prove quite cx
eD>;ve